If you're someone who does a lot of labeling and searching in Gmail who also does a lot of bookmarking, you can set up custom bookmarks to jump straight to your label or search of choice.

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The URL you need to us is: http://mail.google.com/mail/?search=query&view=tl&start=0&init=1&fs=1&q=%s. If you want to hard-code a search, just replace the %s variable at the end of the URL with the search terms you want. The search is not case sensitive, but you will need to replace spaces with hyphens at times - namely if you use a Gmail search operator with terms that would have a space.

If you're a fan of keyword bookmarking in Firefox like I am, you can set it up as a keyword search. For example, I've set up a bookmark for labels with a keyword of gml (Gmail Label). So I can jump directly to any label in my Gmail account by typing gml + label-name into my address bar. I've set up a search keyword bookmark with gms (Gmail Search). So I can do a search like gms label:lifehacker-tips or gms from:gina-trapani any time, straight from my address bar. Thanks Mendy!